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Monthly Archive for June, 2014

: June, 2014

Where else would Jonathan Smalter of Yesterday’s Muse Books Shop in Webster, NY choose to get married then in his bookshop? For many of us it is as church as it gets. Jonathan and Kristen tied the knot earlier this month and have shared these wonderful photos. Congratulations! More Bookstore Wedding […] …

This Sunday night CNBC shines the light on Amazon with the premiere of Amazon Rising. From the press release: CNBC tells the story of a shrewd visionary named Jeff Bezos who bet his fortunes on the exploding internet and created one of the most admired and feared companies in the world. Today, Amazon sells everything […] …

Using the informal Japanese word “Tsundoku,” which refers to the act of buying books and letting them pile up unread, as a jumping off point Molly Schoemann-McCann at the Barnes and Noble Book Blog comes up with 15 new words for the bibliophile. Afficted When something terribly sad has just happened […] …

It was once known as seventh holy city of Islam. It was also called the “City of Libraries” and home to the cultural elite of West Africa. Now Chinguetti is in the process of being swallowed up in its entirety by the desert and will disappear in a few generations. Less than ten libraries and […] …

For the first time the American Academy of Pediatrics has weighed in on early literacy education and have come to recommend that reading aloud to your child should begin at birth. That’s right at birth! Not when they start talking or walking but when they start breathing. They have asked the 62,000 pediatricians in the U.S. “to become […] …

Info We Trust has come up with this handy visual that tracks the daily routines of some A-list creatives. The challenge was: How do creatives – composers, painters, writers, scientists, philosophers – find the time to produce their opus? Mason Currey investigated the rigid Daily Rituals that hundreds of creatives practiced in order to carve out time, every […] …

The book is called The Princes and the Treasure and features two handsome princes who go on a quest to save a princess, but ultimately fall in love with each other. The book is written by Jeffrey A. Miles, a professor at the University of the Pacific, who has been married to his husband for […] …

Braigo Shubham Banerjee is 12 years old and lives in Santa Clara, California. When someone left a flyer on his doorstep asking for donations for the visually impaired he began thinking of ways he could help. Once he found out that a Braille printer cost about $2000 and that about 90% of the visually impaired live […] …

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